Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2010

Also written plans are much more effective communication to your employees, lawyers, accountants, and other key players in your rollout. Unfortunately, a startup with no brand name and no intellectual property is a sitting duck for the big slow company, as soon as they see you gaining a bit of traction. It’s the market, stupid.”

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Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Startup Viral 130

grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Piercing the Corporate Veil – Sweat Equity Consulting. Some have been as co-founder, most have been as a consultant with the possibility of becoming an paid employee, “as soon as we close our funding round.” All names redacted.). GrasshopperHerder.com. • ABOUT. • CONTACT. Jan 20 -->.

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Sweat Equity Equity Cofounder Non-Compete 41

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

You may have less luck getting an equity investor interested, since the financial returns would likely be low. Dear StartupPro, My question is how to treat a valuable domain name during the funding stage? I think you will need it in to get an investor, and keep the equity percent required down to a reasonable level.

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Sweat Equity Entrepreneur Equity CPA 188

philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

While there have been times in the last dozen or so years, usually during times of venture capital excess, that cash to founders, early-stage executives and other key employees has matched regular market compensation (still with the upside of the equity), this is not true in the vast majority in the start-up game. Your Information.

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Silicon Valley Equity Technical Review Recapitalization 40

grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Names redacted.) Unless your name is Mesmero the Magnificent, it’s probably not going to work on me. It doesn’t mean that he should not look up his charts, excel sheets and you-name-it. Ask Apple employees if they enjoy not knowing what they’re building. re: numbers Same opinion here.

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Cofounder NDA Founder Sweat Equity 47

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

As founders, your job includes selling product to customers, stock to investors, and opportunity to employees. You might consider starting with an offer to invest at a low valuation before discussing sweat equity. I think of this as an early test of the founding team’s sales ability.

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Advisory Board Sweat Equity Marketing Vertical 48

Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The best companies invest time, money, and sweat equity into becoming world-class recruiting machines. Is it fair game to hire employees from your friend’s company? Nevertheless, almost every CEO will be faced with the decision on whether or not to hire an employee out of her friend’s company. Will you still be friends?

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Hiring Sweat Equity Employee Engineer 78

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Unlike employee training costs, which can typically be spread over years of service, the relative return from training a consultant is modest and pricey. This mistake, if left uncorrected, could have resulted in significant negative tax consequences for both our employees and the company. Remember – your adVenture’s time is precious.

Equity 40

Equity Silicon Valley Cofounder PR 40

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I ended up getting rejected by FriendFeed, and then told the other companies that I wasn’t quite ready to go back into the employee world and needed a few months to figure out what I really wanted to do next. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.”.

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Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). Name (required). Let us know.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

grasshopper.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sweat Equity Or Equity With Compensation? The arrangement of pure equity without additional compensation is considered a fairly risky agreement. The potential pay-out could be quite large since you will likely be offered significant equity if no money is involved. per year along with your regular pay. Categories.

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Equity Vesting Sweat Equity Salary 41

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. Click on my name for the link. And thank you Derek!

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84